Cows with calves on pasture at the Swedish Research Center. Photo: Marie Liljeholm, SLU
Cows with calves on pasture at the Swedish Research Center. Photo: Marie Liljeholm, SLU

Resources for research and education

Page reviewed:  13/10/2025

The Swedish LIvestock Research Centre is an important resource for research in and education on farm animals.

Resources for quality-assured research in:

  • animal welfare, behaviour and health,
  • animal environment and care and building function,
  • sustainable and climate-smart food production.

The facilities for cattle, pigs and poultry represent technology at the forefront of development. The research centre has personnel with expertise in production, research and education. This gives you a resource, which shows you the possibilities and safeguards your trials.

The research centre has many examples of adaptations that make the facility extra suitable for research and education. Much of this concerns gathering and registering data for the research, but there are also opportunities to shape the facility according to educational needs.


In the cattle facility there are plenty of extra cow alleys and separation possibilities. There are also many complementary resources:

  • teaching stall
  • box stall
  • preparation room
  • small laboratory
  • area for feed trials
  • resource for farm autopsy
  • separate research area


Students and researchers have their own spaces at their disposal on the facility for, for example, teaching and lunch and overnight accomodation.

The facility brings together complementary expertise to support the research infrastructure:

The Operations Manager responsible for running the facility.

Research and Education Coordinators responsible for planning projects and teaching activities.

Administrator.

Service Technicians responsible for corrective maintenance and supporting facility adaptations for various projects.

Research Engineer developing animal housing solutions

Stable staff and stable managers responsible for animal husbandry, including artificial insemination, sample collection, hoof care and more.

The basic registration database system at the research centre stores automatically and manually registered data from the facility’s equipment, from stable technicians, researchers, research coordinators, project administration, slaughterhouses, laboratories etcetera.

Basic registration database system

Resources at the facility

Contact

  • Mats Pehrsson, head of the Swedish Livestock Research Centre, SLU
    Lövsta animal stables, joint staff
  • Lotta Jönsson, research and education Coordinator
    Lövsta animal stables, joint staff
  • Johanna Grundin, research and education coordinator
    Lövsta animal stables, joint staff
  • Linnea Eberson, research and education coordinator
    Lövsta animal stables, joint staff